Crossword clues for teratoid
teratoid
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Teratoid \Ter"a*toid\, a. [Gr. ?, ?, monster + -oid.]
Resembling a monster; abnormal; of a pathological growth,
exceedingly complex or highly organized.
--S. D. Gross.
Wiktionary
a. (context genetics medicine English) monster-like, exhibiting abnormal development. n. 1 (context medicine English) An abnormal tumor similar to a teratoma. 2 (context literature English) A mutant.
Usage examples of "teratoid".
The doors were barred, the windows occluded, but by staring through the cracks in the walls I managed to catch glimpses of hospital gurneys, surgical lights, and three enormous glass beakers in which sallow, teratoid fetuses drifted like pickles in brine.
We had descended perhaps a hundred steps when we reached a door painted with a crimson teratoid sign that appeared to me to be a glyph from some tongue beyond the shores of Urth.